A new post-grant review proceeding at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board could be worth watching for companies and counsel operating in competitive consumer product and health-tech markets. In PGR2026-00051, titled Hyper Ice, Inc., a petitioner has asked the PTAB to review the validity of a recently issued patent associated with Hyper Ice, Inc. The petition was filed…
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More than 30 former federal judges have asked a federal judge in Florida to examine whether the administration’s reported $1.8 billion settlement resolving President Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS may constitute a “fraud on the court,” escalating what had appeared to be a closed dispute into a potentially significant fight over judicial integrity and executive-branch litigation conduct.

The filing is…
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A federal judge has refused to immediately block President Trump’s executive order imposing tighter rules on mail-in voting, allowing the measure to remain in effect while the underlying lawsuit proceeds. The ruling is procedural rather than final: the court did not resolve the merits of the Democratic plaintiffs’ constitutional and election-law claims, but it did conclude that emergency relief was…
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The Ninth Circuit has handed Alaska regulators a significant win in a dispute over access to oil-and-gas well information, ruling that federal law does not preempt an Alaska statute requiring disclosure of certain ConocoPhillips well data. The decision reverses a lower-court ruling that had allowed the records to remain confidential and marks an important appellate development at the intersection of…
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From : Blog Entry >> Ruark’s Blog EntryPlease enjoy this blog coauthored by Ruark W. Chick, Chief Information Officer, Jones Walker LLP & Floor Blindenbach-Driessen, Founder, Organizing4Innovation Agents: Where GenAI Value Actually Lives Most GenAI tools make existing work faster. Agents make different work possible. An attorney who spent twenty minutes reconstructing her timesheet at the end of each…
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Tom Saunders, RSGI Kirkland & Ellis announced today (28 May) that it would spend $500m over the next three to four years developing its own custom AI tools and services. […]
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Aiming to curtail the glut of court filings containing hallucinated legal citations, the Florida Supreme Court today issued a new rule that requires the signer of any document filed in any Florida court to represent that “the legal authorities identified exist and are accurately cited.”
The court’s order (Opinion_SC2026-0673) also adds a rule that expressly authorizes courts to…
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The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism presented a new judicial training on preventing and addressing bullying in courtrooms at the 2026 Judicial Education Conference.
The interactive training equips judges with skills to prevent and diffuse bullying behavior in courtrooms by lawyers toward other lawyers and/or court staff. The training also highlights tools judges can use to maintain their composure…
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